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Detecting formal and informal interests in forest governance
MethodsX, 2022 To reveal the interests of actors in forest governance, this paper proposes a power-based interest identification (PII) approach. Based on the assumption of intentional action, the benefits that actors derive from policy impacts are the result of ...
Jiacheng Zhao +4 more
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Policy translation in assemblage: networked actors mediating science teachers’ policy play
Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research, 2023 Educational policies exist as part of complex systems of many policies, all of which science teachers must make sense before using in practice. Using Actor-Network Theory to view policy translation in assemblages, we examine how networked actors mediate ...
Kathryn M. Bateman, Scott McDonald
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Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2002 Regional officials who are dealing with target groups and should cope with real world limits and conflicts heavily influence implementation of agri-environmental policies.
J. Pražan
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Russia in Africa: Foreign Policy, Actors and Engagements
Güvenlik Stratejileri Dergisi, 2023 The article examines Russia’s foreign policy tools in Africa and analyses the Russian sphere of influence on the continental countries. In this context, it is discussed that Russia has exploited the foreign policy legacy left by the Union of Soviet ...
Fuat Emir Şefkatli, Oğuz Giray
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Variance Penalized On-Policy and Off-Policy Actor-Critic
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021 Reinforcement learning algorithms are typically geared towards optimizing the expected return of an agent. However, in many practical applications, low variance in the return is desired to ensure the reliability of an algorithm. In this paper, we propose on-policy and off-policy actor-critic algorithms that optimize a performance criterion involving ...
Arushi Jain +4 more
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Europe’s Transition to Sustainability: Actors, Approaches and Policies [PDF]
The International Spectator, 2021 In 2019, the European Commission launched the European Green Deal (EGD, see EC [2019]) as a strategic framework for policy development to achieve the aims of the Paris Agreement and the United Nati...
Fernandez, Rosa +3 more
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Policy issue interdependency and the formation of collaborative networks
People and Nature, 2021 Environmental problems often span a set of challenges that each may engage different policy actors across different policy domains. These challenges, or policy issues, nonetheless exhibit interdependencies that may constrain the ability of actors to work
Johanna Hedlund +2 more
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Polish Journal of Food and Nutrition Sciences, 2015 The objective was to identify the main factors influencing micronutrient policies in the opinion of policy actors in ten European countries. Study was carried out during Jan-Nov 2010 in European countries: the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Germany ...
Jeruszka-Bielak Marta +16 more
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Tourism policy networks in four Caribbean countries
Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights, 2023 This paper examines formal power and its influence on the policy roles of tourism actors in four Caribbean countries. The power of policy actors was calculated with a beta centrality measure, and hypotheses of power, policy roles, and policy actor types ...
Michelle McLeod
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Third Space Professionals as Policy Actors
Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, 2010 Third Space Professionelle als organisations- und bildungspolitische Akteure Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit „Third Space“ tätigen Hochschulmitarbeitenden als organisations- und bildungspolitische Akteure.
Amrita Zahir
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